The File Cabinet Makeover

I bought a file cabinet at Goodwill for $8 in January. It's been sitting upstairs in my spare bedroom since. I haven't even bought folders to organize and file things, everything is just sitting in the drawers like a mess. There were things piled on it, in front of it, it just was not being used to it's full potential.

I told you it wasn't pretty! But not to fear, I had big plans for this little file cabinet.

 In my kitchen I had a cheap brown cabinet from Target that was being used to hold the printer and also to collect junk. I'm not joking basically any random things we didn't feel like dealing with got tossed in there. It was a mess.

 Yikes, not fun to clean out, but it felt good to get rid of all the junk, which is what most of it was. 

I decided to move this little cabinet upstairs to our bedroom for some more storage and the file cabinet would go in the kitchen and hold the printer and we'd actually be able to file things away on a regular basis instead of having it all pile up and be unmanageable. I know it makes so much sense, right?

But I decided that the file cabinet needed a little sprucing because it was a really fugly shade of beige. I picked out a nice sunny yellow color that would be sure to brighten up my kitchen

I just did one coat of primer, which just helps the spray paint stick better, and two coats of the yellow spray paint. It worked out fabulously, and I loved the result, although it was impossible to get a good picture that did the color justice. All the pictures I took either looked really dark or neon, weird I know.

I promise it doesn't look quite that neon in person. After a couple of hours of sorting through stacks of papers and a couple trips to Target for folders, I finally managed to get all of my important documents organized.

And I even had room to store some craft supplies in the top drawer. All in all I would say it was a pretty great success. I love when I can move things around the house to maximize my space instead of having to buy something new.